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by apardoe-MSFT 3320 days ago
I know someone who works at Microsoft (and has for 15 years.) These cartoons are brilliant--especially the org charts for different companies--but things actually are changing at Microsoft.

Some divisions change faster than others. And some old reputations are very hard to shake. But Microsoft isn't the company it used to be. There are other companies filling that role now. Example: Even though all you ever hear about is "Windows is spying on me!" I can name three big tech companies that probably know more about you than Microsoft does.
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apardoe-MSFT 3319 days ago
Thanks for the downvotes! But seriously, do you honestly think that Microsoft is spying on your more than Google, Facebook, or Amazon? And do you think your Mac OS doesn't have the exact same sort of telemetry (or more!) that Windows has?

The 90's are over.

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beagle3 3319 days ago
But what about whataboutism?

While this may change at any operating system update (It did for Win7 in a supposedly "security" update), my Mac seems to want to talk to Apple only to get AppStore updates, whereas Windows machines in my office want to talk to a lot of servers at Microsoft, and do so with hard coded IPs, and weird process names. Can you point to an Apple equivalent of this list? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/micro...

My browser has a strict policy that tells Google, Facebook and Amazon exactly what I allow it to; that sometimes causes things to malfunction, and I can live with that. Can you tell me how to do that with Win10?

Oh, and, no, Fedora, Arch and even with Ubuntu's worst blunder in this respect, do not spy on me even 1:10000 as Microsoft does.

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flukus 3319 days ago
> But seriously, do you honestly think that Microsoft is spying on your more than Google, Facebook, or Amazon?

Yes. I have much more control* over what google and facebook can spy on. MS as the platform owner has the ability to spy on everything.

*Except for on android, fuck google now in particular.

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apardoe-MSFT 3319 days ago
Sure, I can accept that a platform can be doing more than a website and also that you have less control over a platform. Good points, both.

I won't comment on Android. I already got ripped to shreds above by trying to bring up the point that mobile is completely locked into two major players that act exactly like Windows 10.

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